Video: Irish teacher uses hurling to teach students about Maths

 Ó captaen, mo chaptaen!

This Longford teacher had an ingenious way of getting his students interested in the famously dull subject of maths. Neil Casey, from Clonguish, posed a hurling-based maths question to his students. He runs through the history of the game (remember, he's teaching Canadians) for the first part of the video before revealing his tricky test at the end. The beauty is, he filmed it, so we can all try (and probably fail miserably) to solve his GAA problem. Word of warning, it's a real head-scratcher. Don't be fooled, just because there is some tenuous link to GAA doesn't make it any less challenging and, well, mathsy. It's essentially homework. That being said, we think we would have fared better on the dreaded Leaving Cert Paper 1 if grinds involved having a few pucks around a field or solo-ing a sliotar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cAXTQ6UeMM